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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David W. Tamkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: CHanging SEQ file to PRG file??
- Message-ID: <BuFHvA.78p@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 19:23:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.140957.17161@uwm.edu> <BuBGDr.ACz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep9.140957.17161@uwm.edu> yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A.
- Yanoff) asked:
-
- >Last night I downloaded some SDA files and they got saved as SEQ files.
- >I am assuming this is wrong, so does anyone know how to convert the format
- >from SEQ to PRG?
-
- foxd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Daniel Fox) wrote in
- <BuBGDr.ACz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>:
-
- | Try the following:
- | LOAD "FileName,S",8,1
- | The SDA file is now loaded into memory and should run normally.
-
- and jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F. Nelson) answered in
- <1992Sep9.195401.24766@news.iastate.edu>:
-
- | I see this question here all the time, and it really isnt neccesary
- | to change the file type. You can LOAD"FILENAME,S",8
- | and that will load a SEQ just like it was a PRG.
-
- Yes, the ",s" will make the LOAD command accept a sequential file (and ",u"
- will make a usr file load; in fact, you can save files with ",s" or ",u" and
- give them that program type from the beginning), and Scott can also just
- change the files' type from decimal 129 to decimal 130 with a disk sector
- editor, but he may have a more serious problem with the downloads.
-
- If his communications software created sequential files instead of program
- files, it may also have been translating from ASCII at the modem to PETSCII
- on the disk. Every binary value in the program that corresponds to the ASCII
- value of a character that has a different code in PETSCII may have been
- altered. If that happened, the files themselves are seriously corrupted and
- won't run properly (if at all) when he loads "filename,s" to get one into
- memory.
-
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